When meditation goes wrong: part one

Meditation has a lot of benefits, but could it also have risks?

Over the past decade, meditation and mindfulness have been promoted to reduce stress and increase relaxation.

But there is another story of meditation that rarely gets told... one that involves anxiety, insomnia — even psychosis.

Today, how one person went from being an evangelical mindfulness meditator, to a leading researcher on the adverse effects of meditation.

Guests:

Willoughby Britton

Associate professor, Brown University Medical School and director of the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab

Pawan Sharma

Assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Pattan Academy of Health Sciences School of Medicine

Pierce Salguero

Professor of Asian History and Health Humanities at Penn State University

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